купус

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Kappus (“cabbage”), with the first -у- coming by merger with another word with the same meaning. Compare dialectal Serbo-Croatian капуц, капус (from Venetian capuzzo), and also Old Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian) kupust (ultimately from Latin composita (“mixed”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kǔpus/
Hyphenation: ку‧пус

Noun

ку̀пус m (Latin spelling kùpus)

cabbage

Declension

Declension of купус

	singular
nominative	купус
genitive	купуса
dative	купусу
accusative	купус
vocative	купусе
locative	купусу
instrumental	купусом

References

“купус” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Gluhak, Alemko (1993) “купус”, in Hrvatski etimološki rječnik [Croatian Etymology Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: August Cesarec, →ISBN, page 360